After yesterday’s blog post I was contacted by the FCO and I now know the reason the FCO was trying to conceal the diary entries for the Gould-Werritty meetings. The answer is absolutely stunning, but I have to wait for documents the FCO is sending me by post before I reveal it.

Tantalising indeed.Were they having an affair?
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Anyway well done on this story Craig but a couple of thoughts.
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Firstly,be wary that they might be setting you up with disinfo by which to make you look stupid or legally exposed with what you print.If they’ve fought to conceal for so long WHY are they preared to disclose now?
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Secondly,and without wishing to be alarmist but i must echo other commnets here.Be wary Craig.These people can be very dangerous when they feel threatened by exposure.
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Best wishes to you.

Hehehe, @Mary, it now looks like Israel will be going to war with UK’s full moral and material support.

BTW, Iran was able to launch long-range missiles for quite some time (it doesn’t take long to re-program a space missile to hit targets on Earth, plus Iran shared some missile technology with Pakistan). It has long been known. The issue is, Iran is well entrenched in its natural borders and has not needed to start an offensive military action in, uhm, some 2,000 years if I am not mistaken nor has ever indicated its will to do break with this tradition (unlike some other countries of the region). All “revelations” about Iran being set to launch a military attack anywhere are sponsored by… well, some Middle Eastern countries (Libyan oil is ours, Syria’s is about to be, now let crude prices go up – it’ll make us rich, and our friends in Riyadh happy, too.)

This is not to say Iran hasn’t had a clandestine nuclear programme at least for some time in the pas. But many other countries you would normally not suspect possess limited number of nuclear bombs and everybody stays silent.

From what it looks like now (consistently with historical British interests in the Middle East anyway), UK should now be setting the scene so as to make the most out of possible Israeli (mis)adventure in terms of political and economic gains, maybe even encouraging the Israelis with promises of diplomatic and military support once the scene is ready (but I would be genuinely shocked if it starts already this spring).

I hope I am wrong and common sense would prevail. Unfortunately, politicians are usually on corporate payroll.

Thanks for the link. Can’t beleive how things repeat themselves. In a fair world, those making the threats against countries would have been punished a long time a go. But it is a one man’s world, and they run it as they see fit.

Of topic again you tube red flagged me,disqus moderators are control gang,this contains footage and radio coms of 9/11 pre air attack calling for bomb squad etchttp://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/02/01/challenge-is-america-the-new-axis-of-evil-videos/,

Well done (and well done your allies stuck in the system). No harm in waiting until next week when, if there is less dramatic news to mull over, the IoS can give it full coverage, with time to add their own double-checking and amplification. It’s a classic case-study of rearguard action in Whitehall.

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Is it worth a separate question to the FCO: “Did you ask Matthew Gould for his own records of meetings with Adam Werrity and/or Liam Fox, regardless of the subject of the meeting and whether it was formal or informal?”

‘Nodding dog’ Clegg is of course creating a smokescreen while the State of Israel continues expanding in defiance of UN resolutions, a fact that agent Cameron ignores.
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“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu announced, on Sunday, that 557 rural areas would receive government subsidies that could reach upwards of 70% of the cost to develop these areas. Included were 70 settlements in the West Bank.
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The Israeli government stated that their intention is to encourage migration to these areas.”
.http://www.imemc.org/article/62936

Thanks for that Mark, this means that contingencies and oil logistsics are being readied for war. Sweet Libyan crude could replace Irans output and be used almost straight away in tanks and other military engines, with little cracking.
Other logistic trails will probably also running on fast tick over.

Reassuring news here about the readers’ reaction to that D Mail piece I posted earlier.
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From the editors on Medialens
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The Daily Mail’s readers have got stuck in on Iran
Posted by The Editors on February 3, 2012, 7:35 pm
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I wish I could get this article in the ‘The Daily Mail’ out to everyone on the internet and encourage all to comment on it, for a miraculous thing has happened: A mainstream media newspaper has permitted free comment in its normally closely monitored site.
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Why this should be is anyone’s guess: Reaction against this sample of Israeli chutzpah which, in its childishness, out-chutzpah’s even the blatant lying of Israeli spokesman Mark Regev, so perhaps the editor, with an eye to the inevitable post war leaking of some truths, wishes to distance the paper from war propaganda?
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Whatever the motives, and ignoring the actual article, which I have only scanned briefly, I am really proud and pleasantly surprised at the reader’s comments, which demonstrate that my fellow, peasant, countrymen are not fooled by the torrents of hate pumped into them by the media, and retain their sense of fairness, humanity and self-preservation, showing that we are willing to speak out, albeit, in our un-tutored, illiterate fashion, against this monstrous conspiracy.
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John Bayldon
.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095722/UK-range-Irans-missiles-Clegg-says-worried-war-break-out.html

Listening to Clegg you wouldn’t think that the UK has a nuclear DETERRENT capable of hitting any place on the planet with multiple, independently targeted war-heads, all of which are 100’s of times more powerful than the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs.

The politicians justify the spending of billions upon billions year after year by claiming that these weapons protect us because no nation will be stupid enough to attack a nuclear armed UK because it would guarantee their own annihilation.

If that’s not the case then shouldn’t the UK be sending warships up the Yangtze and Volga as well as to the Persian Gulf and saving a shed load of money by scrapping the nuclear arsenal? After all, according to Clegg’s logic it is no longer a deterrent.

“The answer is absolutely stunning” – why because it proves that your tenuous conspiracy theory is just that – or is it because it is sufficiently vague that it allows you to add yet another tenuous supposition to the lengthy chain that you have already constructed? My guess is the latter knowing your ego.

‘Exposed: The Arab agenda in Syria’
Pepe Escobarhttp://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NB04Ak01.html
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“So the report was either ignored (by Western corporate media) or mercilessly destroyed – by Arab media, virtually all of it financed by either the House of Saud or Qatar. It was not even discussed – because it was prevented by the GCC from being translated from Arabic into English and published in the Arab League’s website.

The whole of the front page of the Independent is devoted to this, an announcement of war on Iran. Everything is given except the day and time of the launch. Disgusting. The author is Donald McIntyre.
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Drums of war beat louder as Iran and Israel step up rhetoric
Evidence is mounting that Washington believes an Israeli attack on Iran is now only a matter of time.

Donald Macintyre Saturday 04 February 2012

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Iran’s supreme leader threatened to attack Israel yesterday in retaliation for Western sanctions against the Islamic Republic, warning that “threatening Iran and attacking Iran will harm America”. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s declaration came as apprehension of possible conflict was intensified by a report suggesting that the US Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, believes Israel could strike nuclear targets in Iran before the summer after concluding that military action might be needed before it was “too late” to stop Tehran’s nuclear programme.
.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/drums-of-war-beat-louder-as-iran-and-israel-step-up-rhetoric-6358873.html

“Just got in from the demonstration at the Syrian embassy against the 200 massacred in Homs by your fascist friend Assad?”
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Got any proof of that? No? Thought not.
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Just like all those Gaddaffi ‘atrocities’ that never actually happened except in the minds of Western hacks and phantom ‘human rights’ organisations.
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As everyone knows the Free Syrian Army (hint: Western proxy), featuring ‘Al Qaeda affiliated’ mercenaries fresh from the slaughter in Libya, only kill Syrian security forces – even when leaving car bombs in public places or mass executing policemen, who happen to be civilians.
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I’m sure todays media saturation coverage of the unrest in Homs has nothing to do with today’s vote at the UN Security Council. Just as I am assured that the reason the Arab League report into the situation has not been ignored just because it apportions much blame on ‘armed groups’, i.e. not the Syrian security forces.

Anon,
Yeah those two hundred were bussed into London to go and demonstrate in front of the Syrian embassy. these figures and the crappy Capitan giving interviews; “if Syrian fighters attack us we have nothing but light weapons”, ifs, buts, pans, etc. The whole stinking affair is repetition of the tired stories of the warmongers. Only one class of operatives thrive on war; ziofuckwits.

The British have always been masters in waging wars in white gloves… winning its interests with other people’s hands.
Nick Clegg’s words signal: Israel will fight, and Britain is putting white gloves on.

John Ha! I was thinking about TB earlier and in view of the cold weather, pondering how much he spends on energy bills for the many homes he owns, including Sir John Gielgud’s elegant old pile in Bucks. The last I heard he was annoying the locals by putting up a steel security fence. Probably got the idea from the Israelis.

Good comment and info from Pepe Escobar.
THE ROVING EYE
Exposed: The Arab agenda in Syria
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So the report was either ignored (by Western corporate media) or mercilessly destroyed – by Arab media, virtually all of it financed by either the House of Saud or Qatar. It was not even discussed – because it was prevented by the GCC from being translated from Arabic into English and published in the Arab League’s website.
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Until it was leaked. Here it is, in full. (link)
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The report is adamant. There was no organized, lethal repression by the Syrian government against peaceful protesters. Instead, the report points to shady armed gangs as responsible for hundreds of deaths among Syrian civilians, and over one thousand among the Syrian army, using lethal tactics such as bombing of civilian buses, bombing of trains carrying diesel oil, bombing of police buses and bombing of bridges and pipelines.
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.http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NB04Ak01.html

Is Anon new name for Larry from St. L, as I remember Anon changed his user name while ago and gave his reasons too. So Larry from St. L, go back under the rock where you were hiding and do not pretend to be Anon.. Anon is Anon no more!

If/ when the FCO reply arrives, please check if it was sent first class post. 2nd is quite likely, though they may well have an arrangment with the Royal Mail that all that’s expected is Third Class (like the old railways), and one that makes arrival akin to entering the National Lottery.